F-15C can take SNIPER? Thought it was strike eagle only
Yes
Spoiler
And has on multiple occasions.
IR missiles could lock onto a heli to begin with?
I gave up trying to use an AAM and is the main reason why I bother bringing Brimstone 1s with me on the Typhoon.
yes they can, and iv had them lock fairly alright for me, but Comanche pretty much makes it impossible unless your pretty much touching it
What do they even use them for? Buddy lasing?
Hmm… maybe ive been unlucky. Though with regard to Aim-9M locking a heli/commanche, its lock ranges are massively nerfed currently. So that might help a bit
Doesnt Sniper have a IRST-like mode for A2A?
Why not the Sniper for A-10C? The Su-25SM3 gets a SOLT-25 at the same BR.
They have Legion IRST pod for that. And maybe Tiger Eye pod but idk how much it was used by US F-15’s
is sniper equal to SOLT-25?
Also Harrier Gr7 gets TIALD at a higher BR in ARB and the same BR in GRB. So… ?
But isnt Legion quite new?
But there is also just scouting. I know one of the most valuable things the Typhoons could do during Op Shader was scout for ground forces using the Sniper. Even send real-time footage down to the commanders on the ground
the lock ranges for IR missiles against Heli’s from what i can tell are realistic simply thanks to how exhaust is ejected on a heli and how Heli’s simply dont move fast enough to have their skin drenched in heat via intense friction and where engines are positioned, but the Comanche dials the IR signature down by a substantial amount altho i dont know the exact methods besides screwing with the exhaust
There was a tiger eye pod sort of thing on the TGP/navigation pod hardpoint
SOLT-25 is gen 3, which is currently best available, no reason to assume sniper would not also be.
What if they are adding SNIPER to F-2 and SNIPER XR to A-10, F-15, F-16
That would be pretty cool
Yeah (and I really hope that gets added to fixed wing aircraft at somepoint)
But this would help quite a bit with helis
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/PX7CKrwWNGdr
how much it would help with the commanche is difficult to say, but maybe not quite pointblank
TGPs serve a bigger purpose than just A2G IRL. They are limited in capability in-game.
I don’t think we will see the distinction made ingame
So is Litening III. Could the A-10C get Litening III?
What Im saying is, if it could get Litening III. Then maybe it doesnt because of balancing? Also we should assume that for something like Tpods. GRB is what matters not ARB and so the Su-25SM3 is 12.7 and the A-10C is 12.0
Yeah I can see how a really modern one like Sniper could be useful in sim or even GRB for CAP on the F-15C, target ID would be really clear right?